L3Harris in Rochester played a pivotal role in building the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s massive secondary mirror, now part of the world’s most advanced sky-survey telescope.

More than a decade in the making, the Vera Rubin Observatory finally released its first image as its begins its ...

And astronomers have a brand-new, superpowerful eye with which to see the changing cosmos: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in ...

The first ever space telescope, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO-2), was launched into the low Earth orbit in ...

Rubin’s completion converged with technological advancements that are poised to spread the data it produces far and wide to ...

The enhanced imaging capabilities of the coronal adaptive optics system facilitate the study of small-scale phenomena like ...

The Vera Rubin Telescope Observatory is now operational and is enable astronomers to explore galaxies, stars in the Milky Way, objects in the solar system, ...

In its first year alone, it will double the amount of data collected so far by every other instrument in the history of optical astronomy ...

ESA has found a way to make its own solar eclipses more or less on demand and all it took was a pair of robotic spacecraft ...

Astronomers have begun analysing the first cosmic images from Chile’s Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which houses the world’s ...

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...

The LSST camera at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has released its jaw-dropping first images, each capturing 45 times the area ...